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Mission Almost Accomplished
32,000 Boxes Donated for Operation Taste of Home

Media Contact:
Ann Marie van den Hurk, APR
302-456-7170
avandenhurk@cbgsc.org

Newark, DE, April 7, 2006:  Mission almost accomplished in reaching the goal of 35,000 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies for Operation Taste of Home; please help us make it. As it stands to today, the community has donated 32,000 boxes of the Girl Scout Cookies to send out to our armed forces overseas.

Delivery of Girl Scout Cookies to USO, Air National Guard, and VA hospitals is Wednesday, May 3 so there is still time to reach the goal.

To support Operation Taste of Home, call 1-800-YUM-YUM2 or go to www.girlscoutschesapeakebay.org.

Since 2003, Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay Council Operation Taste of Homesm has provided over 70,000 boxes of the Girl Scout cookies to our Armed Forces overseas via the USO thanks to the generosity of the community. The USO located at Dover Air Force Base distributed the cookies all over the world. This project gave girls the opportunity to make a positive difference for our women and men in the armed forces overseas.

Girl Scouting builds girls of confidence, courage, and character, who make the world a better place. We do that by providing girls with personal leadership development and programs that build real life skills for the real world. To learn more about Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay Council, visit www.girlscoutschesapeakebay.org. 

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